Matt Harmon
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Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
Mike Tomlin, 34 years old when he was hired by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Bill Cowher, the previous head coach, was 34 years old when hired by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
So a lot of people are like, all right, is this a Grant Udinski?
Is this a Nate Sheilhaus?
Exactly.
Is this a Chris Shula?
Is it, you know, maybe even Brian Forrest is a little bit older than that, but he's obviously been in Pittsburgh one time before.
It's like, is this that young kind of up and coming guy under the radar?
Correct.
Nope.
Nope.
It's a guy who's almost twice that age in Mike McCarthy.
Number one, it's so funny that this is the coaching cycle that I started saying I could not care less, and I'm tired of hearing about this, where somebody grew up in relation to them getting a head coaching job.
I was like, enough already in the 70s?
Like, who cares?
Like, oh, man, we searched all over the nation for a quarterback.
And guess what?
We found him.
He was the girl next door.